Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prayers to Allah. At the airport, Johnson was pale and apprehensive. But as Bashir materialized like a genie in the plane's door, he soon let his host know that there was nothing to dread. Wearing a jaunty karakul cap, a trimly tailored frock coat and a 500-watt smile, the camel driver accepted the onslaught of press and public with the nonchalance of a Mogul prince. Nervously, Johnson apologized for the chilly weather. Replied Bashir: "It is not the cold; it is the warmth of the people's hearts that matters." In response to L.B.J...
...Attempts to relieve by frontal leucotomy (lobotomy) the nagging persistent pain and dread that cancer may inflict on its victims," Dr. White said, "date back 15 years. Except as a procedure of last resort, bilateral extensive lobotomies have never been popular. The ensuing deterioration in personality and mentation can be appalling, much more so than in the psychotic who has undergone a similar procedure...
...government has been working rapidly, desperately, to give itself a new look in the eyes of the world. Political arrests have all but ended, the top cops have been fired, and even the initials of the dread secret police have been changed from SIM to, of all things, C.I.A.-Central Information Agency. Balaguer warned that "violence and destruction will be severely punished," but pledged that the brand-new rights of the opposition to hold political rallies would not be taken away...
...Flexibility. Auto companies dread Government intervention more than Reuther does. But Reuther, too, is under pressure. He badly needs a favorable settlement to strengthen his hand in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (see THE NATION), yet cannot afford to antagonize either the Administration or the general public. Equally important, his own union-whose membership has fallen as the cost of auto labor has increased (see chart)-has been hard hit by layoffs in recent months and is in no mood for a strike. Result: for the first time since 1937, Reuther last week walked into the bargaining room with no headline-catching...
...ensuing years. Others cite the wartime birth rate, changing social values, increased gross national product, the enlarged importance of education, the atomic bomb, and the weather. What-ever the cause--and most likely it is a combination of all the above--the Admissions Office views each coming spring with dread, and finds itself in a situation where it is damned whether it does or it doesn...